I’ve thought a lot about the creative process being subject to fatigue when projects carry on too long. Unsurprisingly, some of the most rewarding work I’ve done has been squeezed through the proverbial “we-need-it-done-yesterday” time vortex. You’re forced to listen to your instincts – you go with your gut. Maybe (just maybe) it’s that having [...]
A snapshot of the soon-to-debut Microsoft Nucleus at CES 2010. The circular space features physical buttons that allow visitors to participate in a generative music experience – each button enables new sounds and projected visualizations within the space. Some really cool stuff happening here, follow up video & making of will be posted when the [...]
Sometimes it’s about having fun. For the 2009 AIGA Seattle studio tours, we teamed up with 3 of the participating studios (HL2, Pop, Methodologie) to visualize a common twitter hash trend (#studiotours). Effectively using Twitter as our database framework, each studio was responsible for their own visualization needing only to source #studiotours for data. Our [...]
Woohoo. We launched our first completed lab project from the Hornall Anderson Experience Lab last Friday to the unsuspecting public. The lucky bus commuters at 3rd & Cherry (in Seattle) now know a little more about the status and whereabouts of their respective bus. Watch the video to get a sense for the feature set [...]
Ah, the late Sear’s Tower – known today as the Willis Tower. We were tasked with designing the entire queuing experience for the ground floor level of the Skydeck itself, moving over 1 million visitors annual. Our process included everything from spatial design, environmental graphic design, interactive design, the production of a short ‘history of’ [...]
I’ve just agreed to take on the production of a Born Magazine interactive piece. A friend of mine referred me and frankly, I’m excited to do something unrelated to A) money B) clientele. For those not familiar, Born Magazine is a quarterly publication that brings together creative writers, artists, illustrators, and designers to work together [...]
Hornall Anderson is now featuring the work we’ve done at the Microsoft Visitor’s Center in Redmond, WA. The project itself was of massive proportions, involving great minds from architecture to engineering. Our team was specifically responsible for a number of interactive installations, as well as interior graphics, signage, and material. A mix of truly unique [...]
We hosted the most recent installment in the HIVE series here at the Hornall offices in early February. Turn out was great, as were the discussions held by speakers from If/Then & Belle & Wissell, Co. Our team came together to create an analog “interactive” piece to greet the event attendees. Nearly 100 name tags [...]